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Football Insider say it's Mowbray.

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biggie said:
Rovers fan in peace

Just came to see what you all thought of the Mowbray appointment and share my experience of five years watching his teams.

Firstly he has a reputation as an attack minded coach who play free flowing football the “right way”. This is nonsense. It was the most boring football I can remember.

Secondly he will play players in random positions such as the Bradley Johnson false nine experiment , the sam Gallagher at right back and many other strange choices.

He is a players man. Tries to keep everyone happy dishing minutes and contracts out like toffee to the detriment of the team. He will talk about journeys and slow builds to buy him time to top his pension fund up.

He will start all this waffle about integrity and being honest and humble and talk to you decent hard working class folk . It’s all an act.

And finally don’t forget the Xmas death spiral and early cup exits where you won’t win a game after Xmas and you won’t make it to round three of any cup regardless of opposition. He openly admitted he doesn’t work on set pieces and never checks the league table as long as he is developing honest lads with good personality, this also means you get substitutions that aren’t based on what’s happening on the game but who hasn’t had minutes . He didn’t sign a player for us we needed because he wore ripped jeans.

When it inevitably goes tits up he will say he’d rather be with his wife and kids . Not after being sacked whilst still in charge.

The man is clueless and as the weeks go on the sound bites go from heart warming to cringe to seriously get him away from my club.

I genuinely wish you all well for the season. Always liked Sunderland as a club and fanbase and you don’t deserve this appointment.

Get ready to start scratching your heads
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You watch then so fair enough.
However, Mowbray got you your highest league position last season since you dropped out of the PL having spent next to nowt.
Doesn’t sound half as bad as you’re describing.

What constitutes ambition for those that are moaning?
Manning? No experience at this level / or a club of this size - total gamble.
Barry? No experience of managing a club anywhere.
Dyche? Total pie in the sky. Was on millions last year.
Robins? Highest league finish ever - 12th in this league.
Biesla? Going to come nowhere near SAFC has had a massive fall out with Louis-Dreyfus.
Farke? Ha’way man. He’s managing Gladbach!

I’m not cartwheeling through the streets at Mowbray but take the ‘smoggie bastard’ blinkers off and he’s easily the best realistic candidate available.
 
SOLid said:
Mowbray sort of guarantees that we will not go down again immediately. We could not say the same about some "exciting upcoming talent"

Safety first is OK by me after the past 4 years.
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Dress up however you want, its a shit uninspiring appointment - shambles
 
I will 100% support this lad and it will be good to have someone in place for Wednesday but I can't help but feel flat and disappointed. Its anything but an imaginative appointment and not fitting the vision Speakman talks of.
 
Boinger said:
Again as an outsider can I ask, as a newly promoted from Lg1 side, who you were expecting to get?
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You could read a few other threads to establish, or look at the poll. Why are you repeatedly asking when the information is there to see?
 
Could not give a flying fck about style of football he plays the objective is to win games and get as many points as possible.

Start of the season majority would have settled for a mid table finish no drama’s.

Then we can look look to progress again.
 
I don’t think many people are aware of what kind of manager Mowbray is.
I honestly think people are judging him by his let’s face it dour persona and his age.
I’d be happy with him, I don’t think there’s a million miles between his style and Neil’s
 
I, like a lot on here, was totally underwhelmed. But studying his profile and our new sustainability approach regarding recruitment of young players I think he might be the ideal choice in getting the most out of them and bringing them on.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
His only relegations have been when he's taken over lost causes in Blackburn and Coventry late in the season. Both times he was promoted the following year. I've been researching, He's not what people think he is.
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I agree with that BUT I don't think its a surprise that people are underwhelmed at best.
 
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